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November 4, 2017
woohooo! Jill Stein all gleefulllll tweeting about Donna Brazile/DNC. Charming person that she is
November 4, 2017
Rachel Maddow on Donald's anger @ Sessions' RECUSAL & trying 2 get him fired again & again!
November 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926331130403581953
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926331689776898053
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926332345866649600
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926332927335649280
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926333448876326912
will post more below:
Joy Reid's long & interesting explainer on the Brazile "rigged" whatever...
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926330470215888896https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926331130403581953
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926331689776898053
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926332345866649600
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926332927335649280
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/926333448876326912
will post more below:
November 4, 2017
She called Bernie Sanders to tell him about all this, but first “I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.” (In fact, it turned out not to be an emotional call. Apparently Bernie didn’t care much.)
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/donna-brazile-and-the-latest-great-hillary-scandal/
Donna Brazile called the Vermont Senator w/her "findings" but he was lowkey
She describes a phone call where she told Sanders of her findings but he sounded lowkey.
Which she took as him being magnanimous.
She called Bernie Sanders to tell him about all this, but first “I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.” (In fact, it turned out not to be an emotional call. Apparently Bernie didn’t care much.)
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/donna-brazile-and-the-latest-great-hillary-scandal/
November 3, 2017
Laurence Tribe worried DEMS take bait fire Sessions & buh bye Mueller
Exactly what I worried about yesterday in suggesting that Dems not take the bait but protect Mueller by holding off on Sessions!
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/926347587187331072
After Sessions is gone, a new acting AG fires Mueller. NEW AG FIRES MUELLER TOMORROW! WEEH!
The only reason I want Sessions to stay on is b/c he is recused from Trump/Russia investigations
November 3, 2017
Donna Brazile Speaks: No, the primary system wasnt rigged! States control primary ballots.
Trump looks for a daily excuse to distract from his job. No, the primary system wasn’t rigged! States control primary ballots.
https://twitter.com/donnabrazile/status/926465631536459777
November 3, 2017
Howard Dean's reaction to DFAaction no longer supporting Ralph Northam
I Hope this is inaccurate because it is an incredibly stupid thing to say and deeply discredits the organization which I founded.
https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/926255630532382721
See my previous tweet. As the founder of DFA, I think this is a destructive and foolish statement and I oppose this action by DFA
https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/926286564031909888
> @DFAaction announced tonight it would no longer support @RalphNortham, called his campaign "racist"
https://twitter.com/Alex_Roarty/status/926242913545269248
November 2, 2017
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/21/1473138/-Progressive-Praise-for-Hillary-Clinton-From-a-Bernie-Supporter
"... But I want to talk about what the Clinton campaign has done at the state and local level that deserves some progressive praise. In numerous districts around the nation, we simply have no one running or no one of merit running. How do you fix that? How do you change the landscape of the federal and state legislature?
Here’s what I can tell you: beginning last summer through today, the Hillary Clinton campaign has reached out, fairly agressively, to almost every state party near us. They have done so with resources and people who were willing to help. Those individuals weren’t just there to help Hillary, they often acted as facilitators for individuals who looked to run for US House, helping to connect potential candidates to resources, provide them connections with people in DC; and when state parties asked, the Clinton campaign was more than willing to go on the record and back them — whether they were a state she would win or not. These efforts seem small, but for state and county organizations, her campaign’s efforts to reach out and provide them human resources and infrastructure was desperately needed, and in some cases, her support of these issues in states helped decide whether or not the state would push for them.
For those who have criticized Hillary Clinton on many issues, I’d point out that it was her campaign that made real entreaties to state parties and encouraged them to become more progressive in their platform and legislative approach. Items like the Missouri Non-Discrimination Act push in Missouri? While numerous Missouri Democrats favored, pushes by partners and support through elements like the Clinton campaign showed many that they would have support, all the way up the ladder. When people knock her on LGBT issues because of something more than a decade ago, I point out that local groups will tell you her campaign had no problem reaching out to tell state legislators they believed in it and would stand for LGBT rights in the fall, which helped influence people to do the right thing.. not a decade ago, but in the last two months.
This is something that many in these areas haven’t seen in a while. Democrats have been too used to campaigns that said “don’t talk about this there, let’s not inject national into your state, etc.” and yet, when asked, at every turn, the Clinton campaign said yes. Repeatedly. To raise money for local candidates, to provide support for federal candidates, to help recruit federal candidates.
No matter who you endorse, this groundwork benefits all democrats, everywhere..
Progressive Praise 4 HRC, From a Bernie Supporter:" Instead of yelling @d problem, they rolled up.."
"The Hillary Clinton campaign did something practical, pragmatic, and progressive. Instead of yelling at the problem, they rolled up their sleeves and did something about it."http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/21/1473138/-Progressive-Praise-for-Hillary-Clinton-From-a-Bernie-Supporter
"... But I want to talk about what the Clinton campaign has done at the state and local level that deserves some progressive praise. In numerous districts around the nation, we simply have no one running or no one of merit running. How do you fix that? How do you change the landscape of the federal and state legislature?
Here’s what I can tell you: beginning last summer through today, the Hillary Clinton campaign has reached out, fairly agressively, to almost every state party near us. They have done so with resources and people who were willing to help. Those individuals weren’t just there to help Hillary, they often acted as facilitators for individuals who looked to run for US House, helping to connect potential candidates to resources, provide them connections with people in DC; and when state parties asked, the Clinton campaign was more than willing to go on the record and back them — whether they were a state she would win or not. These efforts seem small, but for state and county organizations, her campaign’s efforts to reach out and provide them human resources and infrastructure was desperately needed, and in some cases, her support of these issues in states helped decide whether or not the state would push for them.
For those who have criticized Hillary Clinton on many issues, I’d point out that it was her campaign that made real entreaties to state parties and encouraged them to become more progressive in their platform and legislative approach. Items like the Missouri Non-Discrimination Act push in Missouri? While numerous Missouri Democrats favored, pushes by partners and support through elements like the Clinton campaign showed many that they would have support, all the way up the ladder. When people knock her on LGBT issues because of something more than a decade ago, I point out that local groups will tell you her campaign had no problem reaching out to tell state legislators they believed in it and would stand for LGBT rights in the fall, which helped influence people to do the right thing.. not a decade ago, but in the last two months.
This is something that many in these areas haven’t seen in a while. Democrats have been too used to campaigns that said “don’t talk about this there, let’s not inject national into your state, etc.” and yet, when asked, at every turn, the Clinton campaign said yes. Repeatedly. To raise money for local candidates, to provide support for federal candidates, to help recruit federal candidates.
No matter who you endorse, this groundwork benefits all democrats, everywhere..
November 2, 2017
2 searches for Russia. I will do Putin next.
https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+site:democraticunderground.com&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/2015,cd_max
/7/2016,sbd:1&ei=qUH7Wbf2C8iPjwSq_LzYDA&start=70&sa=N&biw=1360&bih=637
https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+site:democraticunderground.com&tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min /7/2016,cd_max:8/8/2016&ei=9Ev7Wey4IuGagAbBrrnACw&start=30&sa=N&biw=1360&bih=637
NurseJackie (15,007 posts) Mon May 2, 2016, 02:46 PM
27. Was he ever ON the Hillary Bus to begin with?
He's the one who does that show for the Russia Today network, right? Hmmm... I question his judgement and motives.
RT, originally Russia Today, is a Russian government-funded television network that runs cable and satellite television channels directed to audiences outside of Russia as well as providing Internet content in various languages, including Russian.
RT has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government[10][11][12] and its foreign policy[10][12][13][14] by news reporters,[15] including former RT reporters.[16][17][18] RT has also been accused of spreading disinformation.[19][20][21][22] The United Kingdom media regulator, Ofcom, has repeatedly found RT to have breached rules on impartiality, and of broadcasting "materially misleading" content.[23][24][25] RT states that it offers a Russian perspective on global events.[3]
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12511882226#post27
THIS ONE WTF!
Also this really long post mentions russia:
This one is very long so I just posted SNIP to do with Russia & Guccifer:
This one below posted in this OP: Hacked Emails Reveal NATO General Plotting Against Obama on Russia Policy
Another long post:
First DU posts about Russia Meddling operation?
It looks like people started mentioning end of June and beginning of July! But one poster predicted in May!!!!2 searches for Russia. I will do Putin next.
https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+site:democraticunderground.com&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/2015,cd_max
/7/2016,sbd:1&ei=qUH7Wbf2C8iPjwSq_LzYDA&start=70&sa=N&biw=1360&bih=637
https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+site:democraticunderground.com&tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min
/7/2016,cd_max:8/8/2016&ei=9Ev7Wey4IuGagAbBrrnACw&start=30&sa=N&biw=1360&bih=637
Kind of Blue (6,822 posts) Sun Apr 10, 2016, 01:08 PM
9. What gets me is that it's the government
military precisely that told Hollywood to stop it that had nothing to do with our plight, but because The African-American press had enjoyed pointing out that Adolf Hitler admired America’s discriminatory policies, and as the next great conflict got under way, there was a widespread effort to keep such evidence from view... Though it continued its segregated practice but needed to promote the pretense of integration to the world
And The African-American press, again, also used the saying to critique the contours of the privileges being asserted. Leftist critics at these papers saw the expression as another tool of capitalist oppression. “As the distance between the poor whites and the rich whites widens,” the Philadelphia Tribune noted in 1930, the former will have “nothing to look forward to in life save the dubious satisfaction of being free, white, and twenty-one,” a privilege that is “considerable when there is no other” but nonetheless serves primarily to keep them from growing “restive under exploitation.” ‘I’m free, white, and twenty-one.’ Such arrogant assumptions on the part of a minority in world status is bound to bring reprisals, and Russia has seized upon this weakness in our democracy to exploit it.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/118748441#post9
9. What gets me is that it's the government
military precisely that told Hollywood to stop it that had nothing to do with our plight, but because The African-American press had enjoyed pointing out that Adolf Hitler admired America’s discriminatory policies, and as the next great conflict got under way, there was a widespread effort to keep such evidence from view... Though it continued its segregated practice but needed to promote the pretense of integration to the world
And The African-American press, again, also used the saying to critique the contours of the privileges being asserted. Leftist critics at these papers saw the expression as another tool of capitalist oppression. “As the distance between the poor whites and the rich whites widens,” the Philadelphia Tribune noted in 1930, the former will have “nothing to look forward to in life save the dubious satisfaction of being free, white, and twenty-one,” a privilege that is “considerable when there is no other” but nonetheless serves primarily to keep them from growing “restive under exploitation.” ‘I’m free, white, and twenty-one.’ Such arrogant assumptions on the part of a minority in world status is bound to bring reprisals, and Russia has seized upon this weakness in our democracy to exploit it.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/118748441#post9
NurseJackie (15,007 posts) Mon May 2, 2016, 02:46 PM
27. Was he ever ON the Hillary Bus to begin with?
He's the one who does that show for the Russia Today network, right? Hmmm... I question his judgement and motives.
RT, originally Russia Today, is a Russian government-funded television network that runs cable and satellite television channels directed to audiences outside of Russia as well as providing Internet content in various languages, including Russian.
RT has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government[10][11][12] and its foreign policy[10][12][13][14] by news reporters,[15] including former RT reporters.[16][17][18] RT has also been accused of spreading disinformation.[19][20][21][22] The United Kingdom media regulator, Ofcom, has repeatedly found RT to have breached rules on impartiality, and of broadcasting "materially misleading" content.[23][24][25] RT states that it offers a Russian perspective on global events.[3]
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12511882226#post27
saltpoint (50,986 posts) Wed May 4, 2016, 12:59 PM
24. Trump reportedly called Putin first,
but Putin told him he didn't think U.S. elections laws would swing it for a Russian guy to be on the ticket. So he told Putin he would "bomb the shit out of Russia" and hung up.
You can't always get what you want, according to the Stones.
Trump will sit at his terrific desk and use his terrific phone to call some more potential terrific veep noms later today.
Ordinarily, it would be difficult for Trump to find someone as horrendous a citizen as he is, but luckily at this point in its history, the GOP bench is very deep indeed with horrendous citizens. They got binders full of horrendous citizens.
Pretty sure he could secure a veep nom before 3:30 Eastern this afternoon.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141436995#post24
24. Trump reportedly called Putin first,
but Putin told him he didn't think U.S. elections laws would swing it for a Russian guy to be on the ticket. So he told Putin he would "bomb the shit out of Russia" and hung up.
You can't always get what you want, according to the Stones.
Trump will sit at his terrific desk and use his terrific phone to call some more potential terrific veep noms later today.
Ordinarily, it would be difficult for Trump to find someone as horrendous a citizen as he is, but luckily at this point in its history, the GOP bench is very deep indeed with horrendous citizens. They got binders full of horrendous citizens.
Pretty sure he could secure a veep nom before 3:30 Eastern this afternoon.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141436995#post24
THIS ONE WTF!
AgerolanAmerican (1,000 posts) Sat May 21, 2016, 06:51 PM
79. Rumor has it the Russians have many of them
Can you imagine them doing a public dump of her email, say... October 21st or thereabouts?
Anybody who has copies of those has an incredible amount of blackmail power of her. Disqualifying in and of itself.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512022908#post79
79. Rumor has it the Russians have many of them
Can you imagine them doing a public dump of her email, say... October 21st or thereabouts?
Anybody who has copies of those has an incredible amount of blackmail power of her. Disqualifying in and of itself.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512022908#post79
Also this really long post mentions russia:
grasswire (50,130 posts) Sat May 21, 2016, 03:43 PM
28. writing by DU member leveymg on HRC exposure
Leveymg review of Hillary Clinton's exposure to risk 2016
SNIP/ F.B.I. is also trying to determine whether foreign powers, especially China or Russia, gained access to Mrs. Clinton’s private server, although at this point, any security breaches are speculation.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512022908#post28
28. writing by DU member leveymg on HRC exposure
Leveymg review of Hillary Clinton's exposure to risk 2016
SNIP/ F.B.I. is also trying to determine whether foreign powers, especially China or Russia, gained access to Mrs. Clinton’s private server, although at this point, any security breaches are speculation.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512022908#post28
cali (114,904 posts) Sat May 14, 2016, 06:16 AM
Behold this amazing mural of Vladimir Putin kissing Donald Trump on the lips
Photo by JeffreyW source http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreyww/4975375328/?quality=80&strip=all&w=3200
A burger restaurant in Lithuania has become internet-famous for a brilliant piece of political graffiti. Keulė Rūkė, a casual eatery in the capital city of Vilnius, has decorated its storefront with a mural of Russian president Vladimir Putin kissing Donald Trump.
It’s a nod to a famous photograph from 1979, of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his communist ally Erich Honecker, which was later graffitied on the Berlin Wall.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027831275
Behold this amazing mural of Vladimir Putin kissing Donald Trump on the lips
Photo by JeffreyW source http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreyww/4975375328/?quality=80&strip=all&w=3200
A burger restaurant in Lithuania has become internet-famous for a brilliant piece of political graffiti. Keulė Rūkė, a casual eatery in the capital city of Vilnius, has decorated its storefront with a mural of Russian president Vladimir Putin kissing Donald Trump.
It’s a nod to a famous photograph from 1979, of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his communist ally Erich Honecker, which was later graffitied on the Berlin Wall.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027831275
This one is very long so I just posted SNIP to do with Russia & Guccifer:
IdaBriggs (10,559 posts) Tue May 31, 2016, 10:55 PM
Kindly STOP Disrespecting the Intelligence Community in defense
They can't say whether Russia or China have copies of all of Hillary's emails, or only the ones Guccifer posted when he hacked into Blumenthal's account. We know Blumenthal had stuff he had no business having, and names were named. We know conversations were repeated when only a handful of people were in the room, and the people there increased their chances of figuring out "who was passing information to the Americans" just from emails on Wikileaks.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512098783
Kindly STOP Disrespecting the Intelligence Community in defense
They can't say whether Russia or China have copies of all of Hillary's emails, or only the ones Guccifer posted when he hacked into Blumenthal's account. We know Blumenthal had stuff he had no business having, and names were named. We know conversations were repeated when only a handful of people were in the room, and the people there increased their chances of figuring out "who was passing information to the Americans" just from emails on Wikileaks.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512098783
This one below posted in this OP: Hacked Emails Reveal NATO General Plotting Against Obama on Russia Policy
leveymg (36,418 posts) Fri Jul 1, 2016, 11:22 AM
2. Here's the DCLeaks About page
http://dcleaks.com/index.php/about/
DCleaks is a new level project aimed to analyze and publish a large amount of emails from top-ranking officials and their influence agents all over the world.
The project was launched by the American hacktivists who respect and appreciate freedom of speech, human rights and government of the people. We believe that our politicians have forgotten that in a democracy the people are the highest form of political authority so our citizens have the right to participate in governing our nation. The authorities are just lobbying interests of Wall Street fat cats, industrial barons and multinational corporations’ representatives who swallow up all resources and subjugate all markets.
We believe U.S. citizens have the right to know how domestic and foreign policies of the United States are shaped and who the real policy maker is.
Our aim is to find out and tell you the truth about U.S. decision-making process as well as about the key elements of American political life.
There are no borders or censorship for DCleaks. We are open for cooperation and ready to get valuable information, check its validity and to make it available to the public.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11788743#post2
2. Here's the DCLeaks About page
http://dcleaks.com/index.php/about/
DCleaks is a new level project aimed to analyze and publish a large amount of emails from top-ranking officials and their influence agents all over the world.
The project was launched by the American hacktivists who respect and appreciate freedom of speech, human rights and government of the people. We believe that our politicians have forgotten that in a democracy the people are the highest form of political authority so our citizens have the right to participate in governing our nation. The authorities are just lobbying interests of Wall Street fat cats, industrial barons and multinational corporations’ representatives who swallow up all resources and subjugate all markets.
We believe U.S. citizens have the right to know how domestic and foreign policies of the United States are shaped and who the real policy maker is.
Our aim is to find out and tell you the truth about U.S. decision-making process as well as about the key elements of American political life.
There are no borders or censorship for DCleaks. We are open for cooperation and ready to get valuable information, check its validity and to make it available to the public.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11788743#post2
L. Coyote (43,622 posts) Sun Jul 3, 2016, 06:03 PM
1. Best Donald Trump Jokes
Best Donald Trump Jokes
"While they were in the DNC cyber matrix, the Russians apparently stole opposition research on Donald Trump. Russia, what are you doing? If you want damaging information about Donald Trump, just wait for him to talk." –Stephen Colbert
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027976509#post1
1. Best Donald Trump Jokes
Best Donald Trump Jokes
"While they were in the DNC cyber matrix, the Russians apparently stole opposition research on Donald Trump. Russia, what are you doing? If you want damaging information about Donald Trump, just wait for him to talk." –Stephen Colbert
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027976509#post1
Another long post:
uhnope (6,419 posts) Wed Jul 27, 2016, 06:10 AM
Trump: 'I have zero investments in Russia'
Source: The Hill
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday disputed claims that he has financial ties to Russia.
"In order to try and deflect the horror and stupidity of the Wikileakes disaster, the Dems said maybe it is Russia dealing with Trump. Crazy!" he tweeted.
"For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289346-trump-i-have-zero-investments-in-russia
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141532620
Trump: 'I have zero investments in Russia'
Source: The Hill
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday disputed claims that he has financial ties to Russia.
"In order to try and deflect the horror and stupidity of the Wikileakes disaster, the Dems said maybe it is Russia dealing with Trump. Crazy!" he tweeted.
"For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289346-trump-i-have-zero-investments-in-russia
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141532620
November 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/926099485645852673
TRUMP IS LEADING THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY, ONE OF FIRST-CLASS KLEPTOCRATS
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-most-corrupt-history-698935
Newsweek Cover & Article! Snakes on a Plane
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/926099485645852673
TRUMP IS LEADING THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY, ONE OF FIRST-CLASS KLEPTOCRATS
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-most-corrupt-history-698935
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